On 13 June 2019, Bratislava was chosen as the seat of the new European Labour Authority (ELA). The EPSCO Council (the council of the ministers of work of the EU Member States) in Luxembourg has selected the Slovakian capital with 15 votes out of 28. The other competing cities were Sofia (Bulgaria), Riga (Latvia) and Nicosia (Cyprus). Therefore, the seat of this important new institution was almost certain to go to an Eastern European country
Jun
25
2019
EU: Court of justice obliges a working time registration system
In a landmark judgment of 14 May 2019, the Court of Justice decided that, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the rights provided for in the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, Member States must require employers to set up an objective, reliable and accessible system that makes it possible to measure each worker’s daily working time
May
29
2019
EU: Revision of Regulation 883/2004 on the coordination of social security postponed to the next legislature
Regulation 883/2004 is the most important legal instrument of the EU with regard to social security. It lays down the coordination rules between the member states in order to i.e. prevent posted workers to be covered by more than one social security system. The envisaged revision of this instrument has however, been blocked by the Council and subsequently postponed by the European Parliament